... because the imagination can fancy to itself things more great, strange, or beautiful, than the eye ever saw, and is still sensible of some defect in what it has seen ; on this account, it is the part of a poet to humour the imagination in our own... The Spectator - Strana 901739Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
| 1767 - Počet stránok 334
...ftrange, or beautiful, than the eye everfaw, and is ftill fenfible of fome defect in what it has feen ; on this account it is the part of a poet to humour...fiction. He is not obliged to attend her in the flow advances which fhe makes from one feafon to another, or to obferve her conduct in the fucceffive production... | |
| 1786 - Počet stránok 670
...llrange, or beautiful, than the eye ever law, and is ftill fenlible of fome defeft in what it has feen; on this account it is the part of a poet to humour the imagination in it's own notions, by mending and perfecting nature where he describes a reality, and by adding greater... | |
| 1803 - Počet stránok 376
...strange, or beautiful, than the eye ever saw, and is still sensible of some defect in what it has seen ; on this account it is the part of a poet to humour the imagination in its own notions, by mending and perfecting nature where be describes a reality, and by adding greater... | |
| 1804 - Počet stránok 412
...saw, and is still sensible of some defect in what it has seen; on this account, it is the part of .1 poet to humour the imagination in our own notions, by mending and perfecting nature where he describes a reality, and by adding greater beauties than are put together in nature, where he describes... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - Počet stránok 578
...a.poet to humour the imagination in its own notions, by mending and perfecting nature where he describes a reality ; and by adding greater beauties than are put together in Nature, where he describes a fiction. He is not obliged to attend her in the slow advances •which she makes from one... | |
| James Ferguson - 1819 - Počet stránok 342
...poet to humour the imagination in our own notions, by mending and perfecting nature where he describes a reality, and by adding greater beauties than are put together in nature, where he describes a fiction. He is not obliged to attend her in the slow advances which she makes from one... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - Počet stránok 322
...strange, or beautiful, than the eye ever saw, and is still sensible of some defect in what it has seen ; on this account it is the part of a poet to humour...notions, by mending and perfecting nature where he describes a reality, and by adding greater beauties than are put together in nature, where he describes... | |
| 1823 - Počet stránok 398
...strange, or beautiful, than the eye ever saw, and is still sensible of some defect in what it has seen ; on this account it is the part of a poet to humour the imagination in its own notions, by mending and perfecting nature where he describes a reality, and by adding greater... | |
| Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - Počet stránok 682
...poet to humour the imagination in our own notions, by mending and perfecting nature where he describes a reality, and by adding greater beauties than are put together in nature, where he describes a fiction. He is not obliged to attend her in the slow advances which she makes from one... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - Počet stránok 806
...strange, or beautiful, than the eye ever saw, and is still sensible of some defect in what it has seen ; on this account it is the part of a poet to humour the imagination in its own notions, by mending and perfecting nature where he describes a reality, and by adding greater... | |
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